that would be gop fund-raiser elliott broidy. is now ending hush money payments to a former "playboy" model. the bizarre, always bizarre details of that story in two minutes. >>> a really weird story about a prominent republican making hush money payments to an adult performer has just gotten even weirder. no, it's not the one you're thinking of. back in april the "wall street journal" reported that this guy, elliott broidy, who was at the time the deputy finance chair of the rnc, had agreed in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million, not a small amount of money, to a former "playboy" playmate named shera bechard. in a statement broidy said, "i acknowledge i had a consensual relationship way playboy playmate. at the end of our relationship this woman shared with me she was pregnant. she alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and i offered her financial help during this difficult period." more on that stage stramt in a moment. broidy stepped down from his post at the rnc. the story did not go way in large part be

that would be gop fund-raiser elliott broidy. is now ending hush money payments to a former "playboy" model. the bizarre, always bizarre details of that story in two minutes. of these before, even though geico has been- ohhh. ooh ohh here we go, here we go. you got cut off there, what were you saying? oooo. oh no no. maybe that geico has been proudly serving the military for over 75 years? is that what you wanted to say? mhmmm. i have to say, you seemed a lot chattier on tv. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. you ok back there, buddy? let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. >>> a really weird story about a prominent republican making hush money payments to an adult performer has just gotten even weirder. no, it's not the one you're thinking of. back in april the "wall street journal" reported that this guy, elliott broidy, who was at the time t

has at the firm calling it a big mess elliott trying to wrestle control away in may. i'm pleased to say that willem joins us in rome with a closer look at telecom italia willem >> thanks. i had a chance to talk to the ceo of the company yesterday the first interview he has given since that change in control at the board in may one thing elliott has been pushing for ahead of that change was asset sales, they wanted to strip out the noncore assets that belonged to the conglomerate in italy. they are talking about that much more fervently than before the change of control at the board of directors also one other thing they talked about is when they spin off their network infrastructure business, that's subject to government approval, there's been talk from elliott they might want to sell a stake in that business or merge it with the other rival called open fiber. i asked about that possibility whether he thought it was viable here's what he had to say. >> any cooperation can be positive on the country level, because we combine the efforts to be building in more areas and

you used to be a sports editor here, this is one for you, carl elliott —— kyle elliott the last man standinggo all the birds would have gone, we would've had to follow other players, but the andy murray generation if you like means that a brit had the chance of winning. wouldn't it be wonderful, sunday a brit wins wimbledon and the next sunday england win the world cup. what a double. football wins are overrated. it is not the wimbledon final. this is true. it is early days. you'll be at wimbledon. i will, but at three o'clock i think my attention will be taken away to the round ball. thank you for being with us. thank you for your company. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. and of course, a big thank you to my guests this evening, baroness ros altmann and mihir bose and goodbye. i'll be back in a few minutes' time with the ii i'll be back in a few minutes' time with the 11 o'clock news. stay with us.

nicole elliott director of the office of cannabis. thank you for having us here today and for agreeing to hear and weigh in on this item. i am joined by my deputy director eugene hillsman, he is right behind me. he will also be presenting on components of the equity program as well. last time i was here was before we had, in place, a final regulatory structure. it was less than a year ago. since then, the city has issued an equity report that was done by my office in collaboration with the human rights commission in the controllers office. supervisor cohen led the charge in implementing or incrafting an equity program incorporated into the regular la tosh regulatory . so before we get into the over all request, i wanted to familiarize you all with that program so you can better understand the program and the population that we're targeting with this request. so just starting at the very beginning, looking at what supervisor cohen put in article 16 of the police code. this is a requirement to do an equity program. you will recall when

jack of all trades, elliott. i asked him to make them public. whatid, regardless of chuck grassley believes and frankly,s of what, president bush, who is a fine man but is aware of what justice kavanagh feels -- he said he would give it a careful look and get back to me at the end of the week. questions? what recourse do you have if he says no? the recourse is the american people let their senators know that they want to see these documents and our recourse will be to ask justice kavanagh a lot of questions but we all know that these judicial nominees study carefully the answers that often dance around the questions. documents are a good way to do this. >> [inaudible] sen. schumer: chairman grassley didn't seem to feel that way when 170,000 pages of elana kagan's documents were sent to the republicans. this double standard reeks. people are asking what are they hiding. we are not intending to be dilatory. they could sign a letter with us right away and we will work on a process to go to the documents quickly. the intent here is sunlight, not del

the deputy finance chairman of the national republican party, this is the case where elliott broidy -- reportedly offered the malaysians a contract in which he and his wife would be paid $75 million for somehow making the justice department investigation into this matter go away. they could just pay them in handbags. why did this trump donor, the deputy finance chairman of the republican party, think he had the power to make this justice department investigation go away? how did he set a $75 million price tag as what he ought to be paid in order to do that? i don't know. but we do know that elliott broidy's business partner has been granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation as a witness in the robert mueller investigation. so i have a feeling in the end we will eventually find out. stay with us. as unfathomable as the universe a world that doesn't exist outside you, but within you where breakthrough science is replacing chemotherapy with immunotherapy where we can now attack the causes of disease not just the symptoms. where medicines once produced for all, are now designed t

paul elliott lives in reading and his home wasjust paul elliott lives in reading and his home was just kilometres from the fire and he told us kilometres from the fire and he told us what it was like to abandon his home —— redding. we did, on thursday evening, when it got really bad. and did your home survive? it did survive, we are back in at the moment but we are packed and ready to leave at any time because it is such a fast—changing situation. to clarify, how long have you lived in california? 13 years. so you're used to seeing wildfires? we used to fires but this is on a completely different level. what do you mean by that, how bad is it compared to other times? the intensity and ferocity of it and the size of it. roughly at the moment it's the equivalent size so what are your preparations for something like this? you pack as much stuff that you think you can fit in the car, anything valuable, passports, any identification and you're just ready to go the minute you are warned or if you feel threatened and you just drive as fast as you can to get out of there. what is it like being

he's also a law professor at george washington university law school and elliott williams, principal at republic policy firm the raven group, previously served as deputy assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the department of justice during the obama administration. jeff, let's start with you, what are we looking at right now? we've got these four finalists. we believe that to be the case. there are rumors that the president has narrowed it down to two. how do you handicap these four? what should we be thinking about? >> well, handicapping of course is tough, but we know that senator mcconnell has told the president that the easiest confirmations would be kethledge and hardiman because they have less of a paper trail and they might be sort of less contested. amy coney barrett and also brett kavanaugh have strong paper trails and really the strong -- the question -- the million dollar question here is roe and precedent in general and what is the approach of each of these judges. the truth is not all judicial conservatives are the same. it's not easy to tell which would

elliott, thanks very much. the former deputy assistance attorney general of the united states. >> thank you. >>> lawmakers are sounding off today after the president threaten today take away the security clearances of six former intelligence officials who criticized the white house and its policies. is this an empty threat or will he follow through? >> should you revoke somebody's security clearance because they've been acting like a butt head? i don't know. i'm -- maybe the right thing to do is just to ignore the butt heads. i'm a fighter. always have been. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd. that's why i fight. because it's my vision. preservision. also, in a great-tasting chewable. for travel throughout november and december. so you

the deputy finance chairman of the national restauran republican party, this is where elliott broidytedly offered the malaysians a contract in which he and his wife would be paid $75 million to make the investigation go away. they could just pay them in handbags. why did the trump donor think he had the power to make this justice department investigation go away? how did he set a $75 million price tag as what he ought to be paid in order to do that? i don't know. but we do know that elliott broidy's business partner has been granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation as a witness in the robert mueller investigation. so i have a feeling that in the end we will eventually find out. stay with us. -and we welcome back gary, who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in. it's not a question, gary. on march 1, 1810 -- [ ding ] -frédéric chopin. -collapsing in 226 --

if elliott 16, chances are he can get it. -- if elliott wants it, chances are he can get it.g up, lisa hornby will be joining us. a huge central bank week next week. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> i think they are going to be terrific. with president trump have a high expectation for today's read on growth and says if it has a four and fun of it, he will be happy. twitter's monthly active users will be down. and bp's biggest deal since 1999. billion.ets were $10.5 bhp gets away out of a disaster. david: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak." i'm david westin with alix steel. exxon is out. earnings are coming in at $.92 a share. maybe it is comparable. estimates came in at $.90. don't know if that is comparable. was --s of production, it was less than estimated. capx came in much stronger. the state more in the second -- they but production spent more in the second quarter, but production is light. this seems to be of substantial miss for exxon. the row question is what they do -- the realh or " question is what they do with any cash? david: you have to give me perspective because i thou

. >> detective elliott began to retrace jamie's steps on the night of the murder. jamie was taking time off from her studies at texas a&m and was working at a pizza parlor. her shift had ended around midnight. >> we contacted everybody on-- that she delivered pizzas to, and nothing out of the ordinary. >> after work, she'd headed over to a friend's house. >> he said they were there watching movies and she left his house around 4:30 in the morning. >> reporter: what time did you think that she was killed. >> we got the call, i think, at 7:15 a.m., so between 4:30 a.m. and 7:00. >> the male friend, a college student, was the last known person to see jamie alive. the detective paid him a visit. >> he was upset, obviously. they were friends, and had been for some time. >> the friend's grief seemed genuine, but something was peculiar. when investigators asked for a dna sample. >> he said no. >> no? >> and of course we wanted to know why. was he the killer, or was he not? >> the detective was determined to anticipate that question. so he put the young man under surveilla

court as well and the process is dangerous to the union and dangerous to all kinds of things. >> elliott, good to talk to you. it's a complicated issue for those of us not that close to it. elliott williams is a former assistant deputy attorney general during the obama administration. >>> president trump will rally for montana gop senate candidate matt rosendale to try to unseat the democratic senator, john tester. it highlights an intensifying battle between trump and democrats in states that he won in 2016. as it stands, republicans hold a narrow 51-seat majority in the senate. as "the wall street journal" writes many of these vulnerable democrats plan to keep their seats by positioning themselves as champions of their local constituents rather than trumpeting a progressive agenda, items like medicare for all. joining us is msnbc's garrett haake. good afternoon, garrett. >> reporter: hey, ali. >> what's going on out there? is that a lineup for people going in to see the president? >> reporter: it started at about 6:00 this morning. the local affiliate was out interviewing people in lin

she sued elliott junior high school. in her case, this was one of the earliest school desegregation lawsuits. of the postwar era. it was one of about a dozen lawsuits that were filed everywhere from rural texas to kansas, washington d.c. and virginia. in the late 1940s. most of these cases never went to the supreme court and they had been forgotten. but these were the case that first got the attention of thurgood marshall and the naacp and laid the groundwork for brown versus board of education. girls in these cases approached white schools, talked to hostile white principles, turned around did a great job with the press. had endless, meetings with lawyers and if you ever had a meeting with a lawyer you know how long and boring they can be. for young women. my apologies to any lawyers in the room. and they talked about their cases with conviction and concise self-possessed ways. to both the black and white press. the first the white press wanted to know from all the school desegregation plaintiffs, was one thing, do you

robert mueller is elliott ness and donald trump is al capone. >> did you watch this interview in itsnsible. it was a monologue of him just speaking saying russia every other stearns and making no sense and doing what he does best. he fear mongers and makes no sense whatsoever. judge jeanine: the amazing part of this, the russia, russia, russia, the russians are coming. this more bias in strzok's messages, then we have a 13-month investigation, millions of dollars, countless hours, and we indict the russians who never show up to court. it's backwards. >> this is a side show. they don't want us look over there. they want to continue this narrative right into mid-terms. it's a cloud over the trump campaign. then they will say never mind in was no meddling. they play dirty tricks. we are used to it by now, so we know how to fight back. judge jeanine: we have hillary clinton implying kavanaugh will lead america back to the time of slavery. >> this nomination holds out the threat of devastating consequences for workers rights, civil rights, lgbt rights, women's rights, including those to m

elliott is one of them, carl icahn said he is a holder. this is something we have to watch.alk aboutquestion, the competitive environment they face. does it dell fair as a public company considering the competition? in comparison to hpe, one theye closest companies, will probably, should they get this done, trade higher end with more momentum that hpe which has been challenged. part of that is because of the close integrations with the software makers. we have to remember, leads the market in so many categories when we think about hardware. and they are leveraging the end as much as possible, which has a lock of credibility amongst companies that once a modern infrastructure when we think about i.t.. ,hen it comes to public clouds dell will not see their explosive growth. and should we see the i.t. spending environment cut back a little bit for the hardware vendors, dell's stock will take a beating. that was a bloomberg's nico grant and brooke sutherland. up, this e-cigarette maker is seeking more than a billion dollars. we discuss how they are expanding while traditional to

however elliott might clear this up your motivation is that eventsly it forces farmdsle companies toer countries and say okay the game is over. you got to start paying up. >> correct correct. >> okay. >> and i think one of the things that people fail to realize is that the pharmacy thele industry is very much addictsed to price inflation in terms of growth i mean pharmaceutical sales the last fif year have grown 4% annual only 1% of the growth is from new products. 8% has come from price inflation. as much as the companies wants to police themselves and perhaps you know lower the overall rate of increases, it's very difficult for them to generate sales growth without having the benefit of price inflation. >> last point elliott should fl be a discount embedded in the valuations of big drug companies? and is the discount already embedded in the shares >> look, absolutely. i think that the president's tweet is probably going to be you know frngly sort of the final straw in terms of -- in terms of really reining in price inflation there is no reason every if a pharmaceutical company has

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elliott said share holders expect an unbias search for a new external ceo there was growing pressure from how old shareholders for the ceo to step down >>> publicis group has posted an unexpected drop in second quarter sales and poor performance at the u.s. healthcare business drove a 2.1 pr2.1% decline in revenue the firm nevertheless backed its full-year targets. they are grappling with increased competition and shifting consumer tastes >>> abb shares are rising after the firm reported a better-than-expected 30% rise in second quarter net profit. the group said the economic outlook for europe, the u.s. and china was positive, but it warned about what it called rising geopolitical uncertainties around the world revenue growth at the swiss engineering company was a weak 1%, below forecasts and below abb's target range of 3% to 6% >>> s.a.p. shares are under pressure even though the company raised its outlook for the year. you can see they're down three quarters of a percent. revenues at its cloud business grew 40% at constant currencies. that helped to drive second quarter results ab

she was last seen heaving her i ho northeast not far from elliott high middle school. she was wearing white and brown checkered pants and a black shirt. moore has been reported missingt in the pnd is known to use metro rail. >>> d.c. lice -- police broke up what they call a multistate human tfficking and prostitution operation in northern virginia. it was operating out of two homes, one in sterling, another in herndon. investigators say hernanznd mota operatedn elaborate scheme that trted women like inventory. he'sed acc of paying$300to rent a woman in queens new york and delivering that woman to a client's door. loudoun county detectives raided hernandez's home yesterday.ve both men posted and bond been released from the detention center.ar coming up, h from a neighbor who was surprised at that a suspected prostitution ring wasc operating sose to home. >> anyone taking the beltway tos 270 k the traffic can be bad. maryland transportation leaders want to hear how youd wo solve that traffic probable lenl. there is a community meeting tonig at clarksburg high school. if

baric and i think elliott broidy is already known to be of interest to mueller. but it seems hike the value of someone like gates, who was around during the campaign and presidency is that, one, he's agreed to cooperate, he's agreed to i guess in exchange for leniency, tell them everything they want to know. but two, his tentacles really cross the government and business webs that are very much of interest to this investigation. >> that's right. i expect that rick gates will be the star witness at paul manafort's trial. but again, paul manafort's trial doesn't have anything to do with collusion and obstruction of justice, which are the basis of the mueller probe. so this may be about mission creep. but i think it's also about collusion and obstruction of justice. i don't think that bob mueller would be putting his star prosecutors on this case, spending all of these resources, if we're only about paul manafort not registering as a lobbyist for ukraine. i think he's trying to get to manafort. manafort has not indicated that he wants to make a deal. chuck, i don't

paul elliott, he was staying basically in the population bomb that is right off india and china, they never made the chapter to start to, let's not sending medicine or food. all i . and that will increase the surplus population and as scrooge put it in a christmas carol, but time nuclear in the country was just developing as commercial and some leaders like alvin weinberg who ran oak ridge tennessee national laboratory that we still have was seeing the answer overpopulation and they were talking about, they were doing it about a busy argument that population will grow to eventually food supply dramatically, therefore we will all eventually run out of food so we were talking about 20 million by 2050. which is just not going to happen. there are world population will press 10 billion. a lot of people to be sure but it's not 20 million. around 100 with the growth rate will be zero. and we will basically be a steady-state after that.why population off? call the population transition and it's the result of people who use to have lots of kids with the help of maybe one or two. coming into a

but itnot happened yet could be related to why elliott trade is leaving -- elliott traig is leaving.eal sick of facebook is that it has no competition. that is the reason it is unstoppable. scarlet: except instagram maybe. [laughter] the little decline -- i should say the pretty big decline in the share price, a lot of that might have been towards sellers watching the stock hit toward 220 over the last couple of days and taking their profits. the cancellation by beijing of mark zuckerberg's innovation , thato set up in china also had a negative effect. reporterh frier, tech in the life blog, facebook has not missed on top line since 2015. that was a long time ago. it shows the incredible consistency of this stock. what, -- david: it is somewhat foreshadowed because they said their efforts to control the fake news problem could have led to fewer page views and i could affect revenues. what, if profits went up, it also goes with another theory that they do not have to show more ads, they can just charge more for the ones that remain. joe: is facebook under monetizing? have levers they

matthew elliott, former head of the vote leave campaign.g to meet members of congress this evening amid strong criticism from senior republicans following his summit with vladimir putin yesterday. speaking alongside the russian leader, mr trump contradicted the findings of his own intelligence services, which said moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election. the top republican in congress, house speaker paul ryan said president trump must see that russia is not an ally of the us. david willis reports from washington. arriving home to a blizzard of condemnation, the president who pledged to put america first is facing accusations of weakness from members of his own party. president trump's refusal to condemn russia's attempts to sway the outcome of the 2016 election and his characterisation of vladimir putin as both strong and powerful have incensed many here. among them, the former cia directorjohn brennan, who branded the move "nothing short of treasonous" on twitter, and accused president trump of being in president putin's pocket

not far from elliott high middle school. she was wearing white and brown checkered pants and black shirt. the i don't know if child exploitation and human tracking task force is helping in the search for her. >> we made it to the all-star me without metro interruption because of a labor dispute. metro is stillks in tonight to try to avoid a strike by its largest unions. workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. metro officials met with union leaders today calling it a construct stib and frank conversation. they plan to meet again tomorrow. metro is open till 12:30 tonight to help baseball fans get home from the all-star game i ery big day here in d.c. at a lot of weather dram we had in the afternoon. >> and you know, we had it yesterday.ho ar came through around 4:00. today they came through around : 3:00, . it was a lot of rain. some locations pick package up almost 3 inches of rain in an hour. that prompted flash flooding across parts of the area. numerous wind reports and newspaper russ power outages, trees down

with me now is the journalist owenjones and sarah elliott, owenjones we know you are not in favour ofere, is it time to be pragmatic? we are protesting what he represents, the racism, bigotry and misogyny. he has legitimised so much of that, the far right is on the rise across europe, from italy to germany to austria. in this own country this saturday fascists will march in london many with trump placards, he himself retweeted racist propaganda from british burst a fascist organisation. it's important we stand against racism. he is one of the most striking example is. at the same time we make it clear we have no intention of allowing this government to turn britain into a puppet of donald trump. we did it with george w bush many years ago and it ended with iraq. there are those around donald trump who want war with iran. they are marching out of the paris agreement on climate change and they are the biggest polluter in history and that is a threat to all of us. there are so many reasons why we have to protest, not just against donald many reasons why we have to protest, notjust agains

but vote leave's former chief executive, matthew elliott, said he believed they'd acted both within the the electoral commission. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg spoke to vote leave's former chief, matthew elliott, and asked him why he disputes the draft report. they have not followed due process. they have listened to one side of the story, so these so—called whistle—blowers who came out in march, the they have been the commission to have interviews. we have offered to go in for interviews, both at a board level and also the staff level. they have accepted any interviews from our side. they also have not accepted any the fact we are doing an internal investigation of the events. we got outside it experts to look through all our e—mails. we have several teams of lawyers to actually pieced together what happened two years ago to the referendum. and actually when we look at all the evidence, all the facts, actually they stack up on our side. isn't it the case that you are just trying to get your excuses out here? not really. what we are saying is can they look at our side of the sto

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vote leave‘s former chief executive, matthew elliott, has submitted a 500 page dossier to the electoralg the claims. this morning we have learned that vote leave is expected to be found guilty of breaking electoral law. does the prime minister agree that we need absolute transparency in elections and people must be held accountable? i am not going to comment on what appears to be a leaked report which the government has not seen. the electoral commission in relation to be vote leave matter will consider the representations it received and will publish a closing report to provide a balanced account. and we will consider that report when the government receives it and consider any recommendations arising from it when it is released. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, turned not to the impending cabinet meeting on brexit, but to the state of bus services. under this government, fares have risen three times faster than people's pay and bus users are often on lower income whose wages are lower than they were ten years ago and have suffered benefit freeze. this government under their stewardsh

. >> congratulations to them but is family with steven elliott. that is the little family close presbyterians. >> accomplice wiffle played a mean game of chess. >> what happened to the brother, thomas? ow did the family fare economically after the war? ame a lawyer. e book ends with him reading boston commentary. died ried his first wife of tuberculosis. buried in the plot as his mother and descendants settled in virginia and were presbyterian ministers. there is a photograph of thomas as an old man with three generations of his descendants. m are named leroy. >> talking about diaries and such. i just finished reading a book tollbridge rancis sherman, the commander of the 88th illinois regiment, the great grand reat, father elijah p fort was in. i was interested in this book because it told about the virginia.n my great, great grand father was disability by francis sherman battles in in most before peach tree 'm interested in the officer's p.o.w. camp. that?ou tell us about officers speaks about going to take a look at what they're doing. playing

vote leave's former chief executive matthew elliott had submitted a 500 page dossier to the electoraln, rebutting the claims. this morning we have learned that vote leave is expected to be found guilty of breaking electoral law. does the prime minister agree that we need absolute transparency in elections and that people must be held accountable? i am not going to comment on, i am sure other members will understand, i am not going to comment on what appears to be a leaked report, which the government has not seen. the electoral commission in relation to the vote leave matter has said that will consider representations it has received and will publish a thorough and detailed closing report in order to provide a balanced account and we will of course consider that report when the government receives it and we will also consider any recommendations arising from it when it is released. now, let us take a look at some other news in brief. child welfare organisations told mps that some children were being groomed by internet live streaming services and they called for a more robust system o

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kristen davis went to jail as part of the prostitution scandal involves former new york governor elliottd to long time trump advisor roger stone. while the special counsel's office is not commenting on these latest reports, we know that mueller's team has already interviewed multiple people with close ties tostone. >>> a new branch of the democratic party is gaining speed. according to the associated press, 42 candidates at the local, state, and federal level this year have the former endorsement of the democratic socialists of america. candidates like bernie sanders are hitting the campaign trail and becoming recognizable faces of the democratic party. >> we are a nation that will not stop until every child is born with the opportunity to go to college or trade school free of cost, and we will not rest, we will not rest until every person in this country is paid a living wage to lead a digny filed life! >> the democratic socialist of america now have 45,000 dues paying members. >>> making sure women and people of color search fair pay was just one of -- receive fair pay was just one of

i wonder if the work of jane elliott. as one of the things that you think might help. that's one of the things i've been working on. not only to teachers and teacher candidates. but to police and every other organization. i'm down for any of that. this new book. so you want to talk about race. it's a black woman who writes about resources for white folks to talk about race. they can come with us in the revolution. at the same time i also want to hold this true. the revolution is not just for the people that you like it's for everybody. [applause]. we will have more conversations at the book signing. [inaudible conversations] they recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. we have come through some tough times. i know that it is inspiring and i can't wait to read it. with the university of virginia. when i was a little boy i have the honor of meeting dwight eisenhower now one of the best presidents in american history. i think that chris matthews has done an excellent job in this regard in course these are three books of

>> you are talking about a material discount to where the shares -- elliott is one of them, carl icahnays he is a holder of a tracking stock, will this lead dust be good enough for them? brad: talk about the competitive environment dell faces with h.p. clouds -- now hpe, the cloud. nico: hpe is one of the closest companies, dell in the short time, should he get past the investors and get this done in the fall, trade higher and with more momentum than hpe, which has been challenged. part because of the close integrations with the software makers. dell leads the market in so many categories, when you think about hardware. they are leveraging the vmwear as much as possible. when it comes to public clouds, dell probably will not see their and should the i.t. spending environment cut back for the hardware vendors, dell stock will take a beating. brad: ok. thank you for joining us. coming up, e-cigarette maker jewel is seeking more than $1 billion in a funding round, how they are expanding want traditional tobacco fades? a programming note, tune into the boston pops fireworks special this fo

new york democrat elliott aeng will -- engle is the minority. this is about 2 1/2 hours. >> we'll call this hearing to order. today we look at u.s. policy towards latin america and towards the caribbean.

one person i had was elliott richardson who made the determination he would not follow the directionspresident nixon and fire the special prosecutor. he was there just to remind me that at some point you might have to say no to the president and that's going to cost you your job. >> stephen: april ryan said breaks sources close to eric holder, the former obama attorney general, said he is seriously considering throwing his hat into the ring for the 2020 presidential bid. general holder -- ( cheers and applause ) >> wow. >> stephen: just taking the temperature of america now? >> just looking to see potential contributors, and cabinet members. >> stephen: are you seriously considering throwing your hat in the ring for 2020? >> i'm thinking about it. i said i'll make a determination sometime next year. my focus now is on 2018, the midterms and trying to make sure -- ( applause ) -- trying to make sure that democrats take back the senate, take back the house and that we do well importantly at the state level so that we -- we're going to be picking half the people right now ho w.h.o. will

ed; shareholder register, a who's who of investors, bill ackman, larry robbins, paul singer, elliott management, they see you as a deals got, not a guy who does an aggressive buyback program. they want you to do m&a. well that be the direction of element? acquiring other companies? martin: a good question. investors have been great supporters of us that it is not just about m&a, they see us as capital allocators and capital allocation in a way by the share buyback is internal m&a. they are looking at what we are doing as value drivers and we are about sharing shareholder value. about where stock will trade over the next 12, 18 months and beyond. we are repositioning the business and they are supportive of that. i was talking to one of those investors a short time ago. it is the right strategy for the company. we are also positioning over the long term to become a much more attractive investment candidate for the long only institutional investors. with our level of leverage on the balance sheet, the fact we pursue different sectors, not as attractive as it will be posed divestiture. -

elliott is one of them, carl icahn is a holder of the tracking stock.is this going to be good enough for them? we will have to watch. brad: nico, last question, talk about the competitive environment that they face. cloud providers like amazon and microsoft, so how does delve there is a public company considering competition? nico: comparison to hpe which is one of the closest companies, dell will have to probably, in the short-term, should he get highere investors, trade and with more momentum than hpe that has been challenged. part of that is because of the close integrations with the software makers. to remember, have leads the market in so many of these categories when we think about hardware. they are leveraging vmware as much as possible. it has a lot of credibility among companies that one to more modern infrastructure when we think about i.t. public comes to the clouds, dell probably will not see their explosive growth and, should we see the i.t. spending environment, cut back a little the hardware vendors, dell's stock will take a beating. brad

regarding race, how it is live and how it is experienced and avoided, we must allow the strength of elliott torres, the unpredictable spaces of openness testifying norms and segments of prophecy and body orientations. we must be daring, we must be vulnerable which means that we must often be wounded. we must be open to rethink how we are already changing. more specifically when it comes to the courageous discussions regarding race and whiteness we must ask i think more of the white people. white people must be open to die a necessary. and i'm not talking about physical death but a death to white stubbornness. on to white denial, white innocence, ignorance, a death to white arrogance , narcissism. a death to white fear, a death to white privilege, a death to white denials, a white self righteousness. a death to white illusions of safety and innocence. a claims of non-complicity, a death to all those tricks that white people play. to convince themselves that they are fine, that they are sophisticated, the uncomplicated white power. i know about the risk and failure to white others requires de

the morning of april 13, 1947, 14-year-old margaret went to elliott junior high school though whites wall closest to her home in washington d.c. and attempted to enroll. the principal tipped off she was on her way met her on the steps. as she stood facing him the white students were pressed up against the window to see what would happen. across the street teachers and students and the pta and the principle of her junior high stood on the sidewalk. to their minds something made up and fantastic she remembers to engage the situation a called y how her parents taught her how to act. so she said i smiled nicely when the principal told her you don't want to come here she responded respectfully very firmly, i do want to come to the school. her response carries the contradictory views that was required in these confrontations she would smile with general reciprocity and the willingness to engage and also combative leanne courageously talked back to the white school official that was stopping her way from the newly built cities l2 weeks one -- two blocks from her home. she viewed the junior

earlier this year, elliott management wanted to oust hiesinger, who has been criticized for the company's, rising costs, and falling stock price. david: boeing and brazilian planemaker embraer have reached a preliminary agreement for a $4.75 billion joint venture. we knew about this back in december. but remind us exactly what this deal is. >> it has taken many evolutions as they have negotiated this, and that is partially because embraer is kind of viewed as this brazilian champion. the government did have a say in how this deal turned out. what they have come up with is a joint venture with a commercial aviation part of embraer. that company will continue to have a defense operation and executive aviation, small, private business planes. but the commercial part is what boeing wanted and what they are getting out of it. the transaction values this part of the company at $4.75 billion, which is a significant premium when you consider that it is all valued at less than that right now. >> trouble for airbus. the company is set to miss delivery targets with their jets this year. why is airbu